will hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'm still trying to figure out why it's such a big deal. The truth
is, I have 3 disparate network cards. One is wireless. There's tons
of documentation on pf for BSD's where folks reference their external
interface as one hw type (say xl0) and their internal card is another
(ne0). If I have a stable environment, why would I start swapping out
hardware?(1) I suppose there are some instances of two different network
cards interacting poorly but I'd say in my eperience this is not a
frequent case. I'm curious now as to why you perceive this to be
"special".
I don't know if the original poster's issue was fixed, I just assume it was
> I didn't write that. Mixing network cards is perverse, though I've
> done it once or twice. Then again, I'm still using my 3com509bs.
> Using the same two dissimilar cards again and a again for years,
> that's special. Two extra solder spikes for you until you buy a new
> network card.
>
> I'm glad the problem was fixed.
(1) Other than the wireless card, everything in my gateway OpenBSD box
was surplus, ie. free.
For your amusement:
$ ifconfig -a
wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
address: 00:04:e2:29:53:f5
nwid <snip>
nwkey <not displayed>
powersave off
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect hostap
status: active
inet 192.168.3.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.3.255
inet6 fe80::204:e2ff:fe29:53f5%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
address: 00:01:02:64:17:ba
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
status: active
inet6 fe80::201:2ff:fe64:17ba%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.255
ne0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
address: 00:c0:df:ab:20:b1
media: Ethernet 10baseT
inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
inet6 fe80::2c0:dfff:feab:20b1%ne0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
(snipped)
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Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"...and one script to rule them all."
